Isaiah 36

1 In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah.

1 希西迦王执政第十四年，亚述王西拿基立起兵攻取了犹大所有的坚城。

2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.

2 然后，亚述王从拉吉差遣将军率领大军到耶路撒冷的希西迦王那里。将军站在上池的水沟旁、通往漂布场的路上。

3 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

3 希勒迦的儿子宫廷总管以利亚敬、书记舍伯那和亚萨的儿子史官约亚出来见亚述的将军。

4 The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?

4 亚述的将军对他们说：“你们去告诉希西迦，伟大的亚述王说，‘你凭什么这样自信呢？

5 You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?

5 你所谓的战略和军力不过是空话。你究竟倚靠谁，竟敢背叛我？

6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

6 看啊，你所倚靠的埃及不过是一根破裂的芦苇杖，倚靠它的必被刺破手。倚靠埃及王法老的下场都是这样。’

7 But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?

7 也许你会说，‘我们倚靠我们的上帝耶和华。’希西迦不是拆除了祂的丘坛和祭坛，又吩咐犹大和耶路撒冷的人必须在这座祭坛前敬拜吗？

8 Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!

8 来，跟我主人亚述王打个赌，你若能找到两千骑士，我就给你两千匹马！

9 For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

9 你们即使依靠埃及的战车和骑兵，又怎能打败我主人的一个最小的将领呢？

10 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”

10 更何况我来攻打、毁灭这地方不正是耶和华的意思吗？耶和华吩咐我攻打、毁灭这地方。”

11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”

11 以利亚敬、舍伯那和约亚对亚述的将军说：“求你用亚兰语跟仆人们说话，我们都听得懂。求你不要用犹大话跟我们说，免得城墙上的人听见。”

12 But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”

12 亚述的将军却说：“难道我主人派我来只对你们和你们的主人说这些话吗？不也是对坐在城墙上的人说吗？他们和你们一样都要吃自己的粪，喝自己的尿。”

13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!

13 于是，他站着用犹大话大喊：“你们要听伟大的亚述王的话，

14 This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.

14 王说，‘你们不要被希西迦欺骗，他不能救你们。

15 Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’

15 不要听希西迦的话去倚靠耶和华，说什么耶和华必拯救你们，这城必不会落在亚述王手中。’

16 Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,

16 不要听希西迦的话。亚述王说，‘你们要跟我讲和，出来归顺我。这样，你们就可以吃自己葡萄树和无花果树的果子，喝自己井里的水。

17 until I come and take you away to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

17 以后我会来领你们到一个地方，那里和这里一样有五谷和新酒、饼和葡萄园。

18 Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?

18 希西迦说耶和华必拯救你们，不要被他哄骗。列国有哪个神明曾从亚述王手中救它的国家呢？

19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

19 哈马和亚珥拔的神明在哪里呢？西法瓦音的神明在哪里呢？它们从我手中救撒玛利亚了吗？

20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

20 这些国家有哪个神明从我手中救了它的国家呢？难道耶和华能从我手中救耶路撒冷吗？’”

21 But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”

21 民众默不作声，一言不发，因为希西迦王曾吩咐他们不要答话。

22 Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

22 这时，宫廷总管希勒家的儿子以利亚敬、书记舍伯那和亚萨的儿子史官约亚都撕裂衣服去见希西迦，把亚述将军的话回禀他。